OZA 
3. Sea-bathin ng. 
The — see oer applications are, 
Prepara of copper, zinc, arfenic, mercury, pulvis 
Rernatatornn, mercurial fumigations, diluted fulphurie 
acid, &c. e Pearfon’s Principles of Surgery, edit. 2 
p- 285; 2 
Oo 
e fea. 
feet of water. The road before the mouth is very in- 
different, and lies expofed from W.S.W. t It is im- 
poffible to anchor in it in the time of the fouth winds, and 
the north winds drive the veffels from their main into 
the fea, which here runs very hig of the 
river is in N. lat. 18° 18/, and W. long. ne ry from 
“OZ A AM, ear in Ah Sed = eminent French 
mathematician, who ed in the 1 
eld different offices in 
born in the year 1740, 
and being intended for the church, his aoe of education 
was adapted to his future profeffion 
mathematical tutor for his fuppor ty 
pupils, and a confiderable fhare of” reputation. 
acquired a paflion for gaming, but was, upon the repre- 
fentation of a good friend, perfuaded to go to Paris, where 
he extricated himfelf from the habit which he had formed 
at Lyons, and became caly re{pected for his manners, his 
various talents, = learning. i 
a confiderable in 
n i717, 
nam was ufually diftinguifhed te a 
mild and calm  afpottion, a cheerful temper, which mani- 
fefted itfelf under many heavy and very accumulated dif- 
fles. e was fincerely pious and devout, but ftudioufly 
avoided ca iieological controverfy, and was accu‘tomed to 
fay, when urged on that topic, “ that it was the bufinefs of 
the Sorbonne to pre of the pope to decide, and of the 
' Mathematician to o heaven in a right line.” He pub- 
lifhed a great umber of ufeful books, cay introductory 
to the fcie g which were “ A Courfe 
Maibenarcs, (orgie all the moft ufeful and necef- 
fary Branches of this Science,”’ in 5 vols.; * A Treatife on 
Fortification, siete the ancient and modern Methods 
e Conftru€tion and Defence “ Ma- 
thematical and Philofophical Recreations, containing nu- 
merous, ufeful, and Pleaing | eae in Arithmetic, Geo- 
metry, Optics,’ ” in 2 vols, 
OZU 
OZAR, in Geography, a town ie in the province 
of Segettan ; ; 62 leagues S.E. 
ZAR, a town of italy, in the panels ty of Piedmort ; 
to miles S. of Turin. 
E, a word ufed by fome writers to exprefs a foetor, or 
ill fmell of the mouth. 
MAN, in Geography, a town of aay taereel 
in the province of Natolia, between Amafieh and ~~ 
O E, in Ancient Geography, a name given in ” the 
e- Periplus of ae fErythrean fea, as wel as ia Picea. to 
the city now called Ougein ; which fee. 
OZERNAIA, in Cai, the name of two ai 
of Ruffia, in the government of Upha, on the Ural; on 
40 miles W. of Orenburg, and the other 64 miles E, 
f it 
OZERNOVSKOI, a cape of Ruffia, on eaftern 
coaft of Kamfchatka; 32 miles N.E. of Ukinfko 
NA, an oftrog of Ruffia, on the Indigirds 3 144 
miles ae of Zafhiverfk. N. lat. 69° 30!. E. long. 
142° 
Zino, a cei hg Japan, in the ifland of anes 
25 miles N. of Mea 
INOV KOL a town of Ruffia, in ie government 
of Perm, on the Kama; 16 miles N.N.E. of Ofa. 
Oo » a town ne Pi on ariver on the fame name ; 
21 miles S. of 
OZOH K z a town of Poland, in Volhynia; 14 miles 
§.S.E. of Kremin 
oie VA, one of the larger Navigator’s iflands, in 
uth Pacific ocean; the inhabitants of sigs pee 
ue thofe of Maouna. S. W. long. 171° 25'. 
OPHYLLUM, in Botan anys a genus of Schreber 8, 
the name of which is derived from ow, to fink, and Qvarov, 
a leaf, in allufion to the unpleafant {cent of its foliage when 
bruifed. Schreb. 452. Willd. Sp. re Vv. * 3 585+ 
Mill. Di&. v. 3. (Ticorea; Aubl. v. 2. 689. 
Cavan. Diff. 6 . Juff. Gen. 264. \~ Clas ae order, 
eg Pentandria. Nat. Ord. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, ofa one leaf, very {mall, 
five-t eer acute. Cor. ta 
oO 
= a 
ot 
ch 
mae 
bar 3 
h. Calyx five-toothed. Corel! a ee fhaped, of 
a petals. Style one. 
. fetidum 7 (0. trifoliatum ; 
Willa. Ticorea foetida Aubl. Guian. t. 277. Cavan. 
Diff. t. 206.) —This (olitary {pecies of Ozophyllum is a na- 
tive of the forefts of Guiana, where it flowers in February. 
Stem fhrubby, about ten or twelve feet in height, much 
branched, covered with a fmooth, green bark. Leaves al- 
ternate, digitate, on ioe ftakks ; a three, the central 
one larger, all {mooth, ia oval, fharp-pointed. Flowers 
terminal, corymbofe, w. 
illdenow has aneed the sae name to trifokatum, 
but fince the whole plant, when bruife d, emi s a ftrong dif- 
agreeable {mell, like that of Stramonium, we are induced to 
retain the original one of Aublet, notwithftanding Schreber’s 
generic name is expreflive of its foetid qualities. The wood 
of this fhrub is defcribed as white, tender, and fragile. 
OZUNICZE, in. Geography, a town of oe in the 
palatinate of Wilna; 30 miles E.S.E. of Breflaw 
END OF VOL. XXvV. 
Suakan and Prefton, 
New-Street Square, London. 
